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I have to wonder if the recovery is due to the bad link removal (my guess: no) or to the fact that WPMU got new links from SEOmoz, SEJ, SEL, 100's of SEO blogs, and several newspapers all because they publically announced the penalty.

My guess is that they ranking loss was due to footer links no longer carrying weight, then the recovery was due to all the new, high quaility links that replaced them when the story went public. I'm sure the canonical issues and sitemap issues also helped too.

haha. the 2 Ryan from Dearborn ones. Meta keywords, and obsessing about load times. Although, you didn't include my favorite: "I haven't been to any conferences yet this year, I'm not an attractive female, and I don't live in the valley. How does that affect my rankings?" June 24, 2010